AMNESTY

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) In Politics, freedom from penalty, granted by a solemn act to those guilty of some crime. Usually, by an act of amnesty is meant one pa ed to comprehend a number of individuals guilty of offences of a political nature,- as rebellion, . Among remarkable amnesties in modern European history, may be cited, that granted on the restoration of Charles II., from which were excepted those concerned in the death of Charles I.; that granted on the second restoration of the Bourbons, in January, 1816, from which, besides the regicides, several others were excepted by name; and the law of amnesty for political offences in France, in 1836. [s. 53]